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Word: permitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three weeks she spurred admiring engineers to complete wiring that normally takes three months. Despite the competition of Oklahoma's Senator Robert S. Kerr and Tulsa's grand old man of oil and No. 1 citizen, W.G. Skelly (who had also applied for a TV station permit), she secured the tower of the National Bank of Tulsa for KOTV's transmitter. Wearing shorts, she clambered up 400 ft. on an outside ladder to inspect the tower installation. (During this ceremony, a startled workman dropped a wrench to the street below, killing a woman pedestrian from Sapulpa, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Bastard of Arts. The first steps, taken over his first years, called for a complete reorganization of the university under a resolution passed by the trustees to permit "experiments in education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worst Kind of Troublemaker | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...University lost the first round yesterday in its attempt to have part of its Observatory Hill land rezoned to permit apartment house construction. The Cambridge Planning Board recommended to the City Council that the University's petition for a zoning change he denied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Planners Oppose University's New Housing Project | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...Lenox Avenue to address another gathering. An aroused, noisy crowd, some carrying torches, formed behind two blaring sound trucks and marched along Lenox after them. Ten policemen, who had let the parade form, got to worrying about possible trouble, and ordered the parade to halt for lack of a permit. One of the sound trucks broke into a menacing roar: "We will not be stopped by blue-coated fascists." Onlookers could not agree on what happened next, but the Ben Davis victory parade suddenly degenerated into a near-riot. Hundreds of bystanders were caught up in the melee. The police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Harlem Homecoming | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...last week opened its cash drawer and plunked out another $10 million to its great & good friend. The earlier loan was to help Kaiser-Frazer bring out a low-priced car by next spring to compete with Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth. The second loan was to permit K-F to finance its dealers' purchases of cars from the factory, because K-F dealers had trouble getting loans from private banks. All told, RFC has loaned K-F almost as much as the company raised in stock sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: More Cash for Kaiser | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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